Ohio · Private foundation
Perkins Charitable Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $2.7M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 166
- Grants FY2025
- 130
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 14%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $320,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 123 to 165
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 24
- Total assets, FY2025
- $16M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 14% of the organizations Perkins Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 19% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $434k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 163 | $2.7M | 21% |
| FY2024 | 130 | $2.2M | 14% |
| FY2023 | 128 | $2.3M | 23% |
| FY2022 | 123 | $2.3M | 20% |
| FY2021 | 165 | $1.8M | 28% |
| FY2020 | 157 | $1.8M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Johnny Morris' Wonders of Wildlife Foundation | $681,740 | 6 | 1% |
| The Madeira School | $585,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Cleveland Museum of Natural History | $470,400 | 6 | 2% |
| Archbold Foundation Inc | $394,550 | 6 | 6% |
| Greater Cleveland Food Bank Inc | $279,720 | 6 | 0% |
| Tall Timbers Foundation Inc | $266,000 | 2 | 6% |
| Property and Environment Research Center | $255,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Pathfinder International | $240,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Case Western Reserve University | $225,000 | 2 | 0% |
| American Bird Conservancy | $225,000 | 3 | 0% |
Show all 217 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 93 recipients with no EIN on record ($5.5M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Perkins Charitable Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 196 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a loosely connected circle, clustered around a few shared anchors.
Open a dossier: Community Foundation of Jackson Hole · The Louise H & David S Ingalls Fdn · The Cleveland Foundation · Parker Poe Charitable Trust · William Howard Flowers Jr Foundation Inc · The Anne & Leigh Perkins Foundation (Formerly the Leigh H Perkins Fdn) · Patagoniaorg · Thomasville Antiques Show Foundation Inc · Karl M Johnson Foundation · Williams Family Foundation of Georgia Inc · The Orvis Charitable Foundation · Hughes Charitable Foundation
How this is measured
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About Perkins Charitable Foundation
- How much does Perkins Charitable Foundation give?
- Perkins Charitable Foundation reported 166 grants totaling $2,737,697 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 123 and 165 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Perkins Charitable Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (19%), Environment (16%), Education (15%).
- Who are Perkins Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Johnny Morris' Wonders of Wildlife Foundation ($682k), The Madeira School ($585k), Cleveland Museum of Natural History ($470k).
- Does Perkins Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 14% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Perkins Charitable Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Perkins Charitable Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation of Jackson Hole, The Louise H & David S Ingalls Fdn, The Cleveland Foundation.
- Where is Perkins Charitable Foundation based?
- Perkins Charitable Foundation is based in OH.
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